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title: It is a fact that the brave Mannsfeld, impatient of victory, rushed… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a fact that the brave Mannsfeld, impatient of victory, rushed on before his men and fell. Who acts: Enthusiasm. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 26

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It is a fact that the brave Mannsfeld, impatient of victory, rushed on before his men and fell.

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**Who acts:** Enthusiasm · **What happens:** be, rush, fall · **To what, where:** fact

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Enthusiasm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:3:26
# text = It is a fact that the brave Mannsfeld, impatient of victory, rushed on before his men and fell.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Mannsfeld	Mannsfeld	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	acl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Enthusiasm | a fact |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rush** | participle |  | a fact *not said here* |  |  |  | on Mannsfeld's men | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on man=Trajectory |
| 3 | **fall** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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